should make sure we're trying to -- that we can make them hurt by our economic and at this particular timic sancti-- >> sir, this is a war. we are a country. do you believe the u.s. would really go to war with iran if they built a nuclear weapon? >> i think as the president said were not going to rule out the military option. but mr. netanyahu has said that they can have the material ready to go in about six months. it would take them another six to eight months before they could even begin to place it together in the configuration of a bomb and then made into a missile or some aircraft that might be able to drop it off. we have a true window of opportunity here. but you asked a very important question. if they do have a nuclear weapon, the implications in terms of blackmail are immense. that is why he hasn't taken it off the table. it will take a commander in chief, a president, to explain why it may well be in our interest a year, a year and a half from now in order to do a strike as surgical as possible. keep in mind that even the united states with the breadth of its assets and the dept